Display and advertising device



March 26, 1968 R. R. SNEDIKER 3,374,566

DISPLAY AND ADVERTISING DEVICE Filed Nov. 29, 1965 M! VEN TOP PoberiE.Snaaiker United States Patent ()fifice 3,374,555 Patented Mar. 26, 19683,374,566 DISPLAY AND ADVERTISING DEVICE Robert R. Snediker, Winnetka,Ill., assignor to Chicago Show Printing Company, Chicago, 111., acorporation of Illinois Filed Nov. 29, 1965, Ser. No. 510,209 11 Claims.(Cl. 40-125) ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A presentation device to bemounted at the point of sale and it relates more particularly to adevice to be used in advertisement and adapted to be mounted in fullview on the top of a sales device or other surface.

While the structure embodying the features of this invention will bedescribed with reference to being mounted on the top of a gasoline pump,it will be understood that the device can be equally well employed as atopper on other devices or surfaces of fiat or curvilinear shape.

It is an object of this invention to produce a device of the typedescribed which can be mounted on an upper fiat or curvilinear surfacefor use in display or in advertisement and it is a related object toproduce a plurality of elements which can be readily assembled into asingle and efficient member which constitutes a relatively rigid andinterconnected assembly that can be mounted as a display or the like onvarious surfaces.

These and other objects of this invention will hereinafter appear andfor purposes of illustration, but not of limitation, an embodiment ofthe invention is shown in the accompanying drawing, in which:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the various elements making up thedisplay assembly with the elements shown in their relative position forassembly;

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the assembly on top of a gasolinepump having a fiat surface; and

FIG. 3 is a perspective view similar to that of FIG. 2 in which thesupporting surface is rounded.

The information to be presented is imprinted or otherwise provided onthe outer faces 16 of a pair of display panels 12 and 14 of relativelyrigid and preferably resilient material, such as of plastic sheet stock,or preferably sheet metal. The panels 12 and 14 are formed to the samedimension and are of rectangular shape with upper and lower edges 16 and18 and vertically disposed side edges 20 and 22.

At least the portions forming the laterally spaced apart side edges arerolled or otherwise molded to provide a bead 24 having an internal bore26 in which the bore is accessible from the ends for insertion of a rodin telescoping relationship therein. In the preferred practiceillustrated in the drawing, a rolled or otherwise formed bead isprovided along each of the top, bottom and side edges with boresextending continuously therethrough. Under such circumstances,-a portionof the panel is cut away at each corner, as illustrated by the numeral28, to offset the bores one from the other whereby the bores are freefrom obstructions in the path of insertion of a rod in telescopingrelation therein.

The pair of panels 12 and 14 are adapted to be supported on a frameworkwith the panels being spaced one from the other with the greatestdistance therebetween at their bottom edges and with a closely spacedrelationship between their top edges to define the side walls of anisosceles triangle therebetween having its base at the bottom and itsapex at the top.

For this purpose, the frame member is formed of a pair of rod-like orwire members 30 and 32 latrally spaced apart one from the other by adistance corresponding to the width of the panels 12 and 14 for thespaced relationship between the beaded lateral edge portions of thepanels. Each rod-like member is formed with an elongate, central bodyportion 34 and with the end portions 36 and 38 turned upwardly from thebody portion at an angle corresponding to the acute angle at the basebetween the side walls and the base of the isosceles triangle. Saidupturned ends 36 and 38 are dimensioned slidably to be received intelescoping relationship within the bores 26 of the beads 24 formed atthe side edges of the panels. The body portion 34 should be dimensionedto have a length which is at least as great as the base of the isoscelestriangle and preferably slightly greater so that the edges of the panelcan be received in telescoping relationship on the upturned end portions36 and 38 of the rods with the lower edges of the panels coming to resta short distance above the base.

The rod-like members 30 and 32 are secured one to the other in theirspaced relationship by a crosswise extend ing plate 40 of relativelyrigid material secured at its ends about the corresponding body portionof the respective rod-like members As illustrated in the drawing, suchcrosswise extending connecting members are provided as a pair oflongitudinally spaced apart bands of metal or plastic having their ends42 turned upwardly about the body portion of the rod-like member.

Means are provided on the bottom side of said crosswise extending framemembers 40 for bonding the frame onto a supporting surface. For thispurpose, use can be made of pads 44 provided with pressure-sensitiveadhesive on both faces whereby one of the faces serves to bond the padsto the underside of the bands while the outer exposed faces operate tobond the frame onto the supporting surface. In use, the exposed outeradhesive surface is protected by a removable covering sheet to protectthe adhesive until desired for mounting the frame onto the top of thepump or other surface.

As illustrated in FIG. 2, if the supporting surface is fiat, the bodyportion 34 of the rod-like members can be maintained in a straight flatsection. If, as illustrated in FIG. 3, the top of the pump or othersurface is dome-shaped or curvilinear, the wire-like body portion can bebent to corresponding shape more substantially to conform to thecurvature of. the supporting surface to effect a more stable mountedrelationship thereon.

Use is also made of a pair of wire clip members 50 having a gaugedimensioned slidably to be received in the bores formed in the beads onthe edges of the panels. Each wire clip member 50 is formed with acentral body portion 52 dimensioned to correspond to the spacedrelationship between the panels at their upper edges or between the sidewalls at the apex of the triangle. Each clip is formed with one endportion 54 extending at right angles from the body portion and with theother end portion 56 extending angularly downwardly from the planeformed of the body portion and the perpendicularly turned end portionand at an angle which corresponds to about one-half of the angle at theapex between the side walls of the panels or at an angle which willapproximate less than the acute angle between the body portion 34 andthe upturned ends 36 and 38.

When it is desired to space the lower edges of the panels from thesupporting surface, the desired spaced relationship is marked on theupturned ends 36 and 38 with an offset 58 which functions as a stop forwashers 60 that come to rest thereon.

=I11 assembly, the upturned ends 36 and 38 of the frame member areturned to extend in the vertical direction. The washers 60 are threadedonto each of the upturned ends to define rests for the lower edges ofthe panels 12 and 14. One panel is lower in a manner to telescope theupturned ends 36 of the spaced rod-like members for insertion into thebore from their lower end until the lower end of the panel comes intoengagement with the washers 60 or stops.

The other panel is similarly mounted on the others of the upturned endsof the laterally spaced apart rodlike members. Thus the panels are eachsupported on the wire frame members with the panels extending angularlyupwardly in the direction towards each other to define the sides of anisosceles triangle.

The upper edges of the mounted panels are interconnected one to theother by the wire clip members 52. For this purpose, the laterallyextending end portion 54 of the clip member is telescoped for insertioncrosswise into the crosswise extending bore at the upper edge of one ofthe panels. The end 56 extending angularly downwardly is inserted intelescoping relationship through the upper end of the bore in theadjacent lateral edge of the upper panel. Thus each of the clipsinterconnect the top extending crosswise in one panel with the lateraledge extending downwardly in the other to prevent inadvertentdisplacement of the interconnecting clips. The panels will thus beinterconnected one to the other at their upper edges with a spacedrelation therebetween corresponding to the length of the central bodyportion 52 of the clips. When used in pairs, as illustrated in thedrawing, the clip members function as locks to interlock the panels.

Disassembly can be effected simply by reversal of the describedoperations first to effect removal of the interconnecting clip membersat the top and then by vertical displacement of the panels relative tothe upturned end portions of the supporting frame.

It will be apparent from the foregoing that I have provided a displayassembly formed of a number of interconnected parts which may be joinedone to the other in a simple and efiicient manner to produce a sturdyand attractive displaywhich can be securely mounted onto vertical orhorizontally disposed surfaces and surfaces of curvilinear shape, asexemplified by the top of a gasoline pump or the like.

It will be understood that changes may be made in the details ofconstruction, arrangement and operation without departing from thespirit of the invention, especially as defined in the following claims.

I claim:

1. An advertising and display device comprising the combination of apair of relatively rigid display panels of rectangular shape, said edgesof said panels, in at least the portions adjacent the ends, havingopenings extending lengthwise along the edges, a frame formed of a pairof rod-like members having an elongate central body portion and endportions extending angularly from the ends of the body portion toprovide an acute angle therebetween, .means interconnecting said pairsof rod-like members in laterally spaced apart parallel relationcorresponding to the spaced relationship between the openings of'thelateral side edges of the panels, said angled end portions beingdimensioned to haxe a length less than the length of the side edges ofthe panels and a cross-section dimensioned to enable the end portions tobe received in telescoping relationship in said openings to support thepanels at an incline with the panels spaced one from the other thereonby a greater distance at the bottom than at the top, and means formounting the frame onto a supporting surface, a wire clip member havinga central body portion, a'portion atone end' turned'substan tiallyperpendicularly from the body portion in one direction and a portion atthe other end turned in a direction perpendicular to the one directionat an angle corresponding to about 180 minus the acute angle, said endportions being dimensioned to have a length less than the length of theedges of'the panelsand a cross-section dimensioned-to enable the endportions to be received in telescoping relation in said openings toenable insertion of the perpendicular end portion into an opening at theupper edge of one panel and the insertion of the angled portion in anopening in the adjacent side edge of the other panel to interconnect thepanels at their upper edges.

2. A device as claimed in claim 1 in which the display panels are formedof sheet metal. I

3. A device as claimed in claim 1 in which the display panels are formedof sheet plastic.

4. A device as claimed in claim 1 in which the panels are rolled attheir edges to form beads having the described openings as borestherein. j

5. A device as claimed in claim 1 in which the panels in their mountedrelationship on the frame, correspond to the sides of an isoscelestriangle having its base at the top and apex at the bottom.

6. A device as claimed in claim 1 in which the body portion of therod-like frame members is dimensioned to have a length at least as greatas the spaced relationship between the mounted panels at their loweredges.

7. A device as claimed in claim 1 in which the means interconnecting therod-like frame members comprise crosswise extending rigid strips andmeans interconnecting the strips at their ends to the rod-like members.

8. A device as claimed in claim 7 in which the strips have their endsturned about the rod-like members for attachment thereto.

9. A device as claimed in claim 7 in which the means for fixing theframe onto a supporting surface comprises pads having adhesive on theunderside and in Which the pads are fixed to the underside of thecrosswise extending strip members.

10. A device as claimed in claim 1 in which the up turned end portionsof the rod-like members include offsets intermediate their ends toprovide stops for support of the panels in spaced relationship with thesupporting surface.

11. A device as claimed in claim 1 in which a pair of wire clip membersare provided for engagement ofthe panels at their opposite sides.

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LAWRENCE CHARLES, Primary Examiner.

